Quotes About Songs

To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.

On my first album nobody asked me for a lot of advice. It was a producer's album. We were sent the same type songs with stock melodies. It was my first album and I was happy to do about anything they'd ask me.

With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs.

I love songs, Patty Larkin, Sharon Stone, Mae West, and Marilyn Monroe.

There are some Rolling Stones songs that are just stunners.

With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

'Nashville' songs and country music have always been about storytelling and about the heart and confessionals. They're monologues.

I do develop characters for songs, and I think of everything as storytelling, in a way. But I don't plan out what they're going to sound like. I just sing over what I've done.

The great thing about country songs is the storytelling.

I am not against songs in films. We come from an oral tradition of storytelling. I have grown up listening to epics in oral rendition and oral rendition always had music.

My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.

Strangely enough, 'I've Seen All Good People' is, I think, the second most played Yes song on American radio after 'Owner Of A Lonely Heart.' And then I think 'Roundabout' is third.

Where fire really burns and the light itself burns your eyes, where songs are the most beautiful songs you have ever heard, and emotions passed over in daily life take on a horrifying, uncanny hue

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.

I think the concept of commercials, for example, I have had offers to do songs in different commercials, and it is not what I have liked.

Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'

I know that my passion is for opera, but sometimes I like also to sing songs, because there are many beautiful melodies.

I like folk songs, but ten horses couldn't bring me to a concert or an opera.

If you are going to take me a to a musical, you'd better give me three songs that I'm gonna like. Nobody goes to the opera for the recitative. They go for the aria.

I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs.

I'm opinionated because I care so much about the music and the songs.

Seven fine broads are at his side. They sing songs of the Mexican Revolution which they learned from their grandmothers

The numberless heart of the wind beating above our loving silence. Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees like a language full of wars and songs.